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You can use a bash script to do it:

#!/bin/bash # Don't screw us up with spaces! IFS=$'\n'; set -f DIRS=$(find . -type d -name "rules") for i in $DIRS; do set +f rm $i/*.pdf done set +f 

This iterates through the directories you find in your find command and removes the pdf's under each directory.

The line IFS=$'\n' is to cope with spaces in file names, and set -f is to cope with wildcard characters. Of course, this is assuming you don't have newlines in any of your filenames. If you do, the solution will become a lot more complicated.

You can use a bash script to do it (not the best way):

#!/bin/bash # Don't screw us up with spaces! IFS=$'\n'; set -f DIRS=$(find . -type d -name "rules") for i in $DIRS; do set +f rm $i/*.pdf done set +f 

This iterates through the directories you find in your find command and removes the pdf's under each directory.

The line IFS=$'\n' is to cope with spaces in file names, and set -f is to cope with wildcard characters. Of course, this is assuming you don't have newlines in any of your filenames. If you do, the solution will become a lot more complicated.

You can use a bash script to do it:

#!/bin/bash cd $(dirname $0) # Don't screw us up with spaces! IFS=$'\n' DIRS=$(find . -type d -name "rules") for i in $DIRS; do rm $i/*.pdf done 

This iterates through the directories you find in your find command and removes the pdf's under each directory.

EDIT: This would fail upon encountering a directory with whitespace in its name. To fix that, add the line IFS=$'\n' to the beginning of the file, as shown above.

Of course, this is assuming you don't have newlines in any of your filenames. If you do, the solution will become a lot more complicated.

You can use a bash script to do it:

#!/bin/bash # Don't screw us up with spaces! IFS=$'\n'; set -f DIRS=$(find . -type d -name "rules") for i in $DIRS; do set +f rm $i/*.pdf done set +f 

This iterates through the directories you find in your find command and removes the pdf's under each directory.

The line IFS=$'\n' is to cope with spaces in file names, and set -f is to cope with wildcard characters. Of course, this is assuming you don't have newlines in any of your filenames. If you do, the solution will become a lot more complicated.

You can use a bash script to do it:

#!/bin/bash cd $(dirname $0) # Don't screw us up with spaces! IFS=$'\n' DIRS=$(find . -type d -name "rules") for i in $DIRS; do rm $i/*.pdf done 

This iterates through the directories you find in your find command and removes the pdf's under each directory.

EDIT: This would fail upon encountering a directory with whitespace in its name. To fix that, add the line IFS=$'\n' to the beginning of the file.

Of course, this is assuming you don't have newlines in any of your filenames. If you do, the solution will become a lot more complicated.

You can use a bash script to do it:

#!/bin/bash cd $(dirname $0) # Don't screw us up with spaces! IFS=$'\n' DIRS=$(find . -type d -name "rules") for i in $DIRS; do rm $i/*.pdf done 

This iterates through the directories you find in your find command and removes the pdf's under each directory.

EDIT: This would fail upon encountering a directory with whitespace in its name. To fix that, add the line IFS=$'\n' to the beginning of the file, as shown above.

Of course, this is assuming you don't have newlines in any of your filenames. If you do, the solution will become a lot more complicated.